Portable ironing-board.



E. A. BLANCHARD.

PORTABLE IRQNING BOARD. APPLICATION man SEPT. I. 1915.

7 WITNESSES:

Patented Mar. 7,1916.

EDWIN A. BLANCHARD, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

PORTABLE moNING-BoAnn.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

Application filed September 7, 1915. Serial No. 49,157.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. BLANCH- ARD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in PortableIroning-Board's, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce an ironing board which combinessimplicity, durability and rigidity of construction, and which may bereadily attached to the back of a door or to the wall as desired; and myinvention consists of the novel features herein shown, described andclaimed.

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- 'Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my ironing board attachedto the back of a closet door, the door being shown open with the ironingboard and sleeve board in position for use. Fig. 2 is an edge view, asseen looking inthe direction of the arrows 2 in Figs. 1 and 3, theboardbeing shown in its folded position. Fig. 3 is an enlargedfragmentary front elevation, showing the ironing board and sleeve boardas they appear when in position for use, as in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is anenlargel vertical'fragmentary detail, showing the mounting means for thesupporting plate, and taken upon the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawings my invention consists of thesupporting plate 1, which is preferably a board about 141 in width andof suflicient height to accommodate an ironing board 2. The ironingboard 2 is hinged near the upper end of the supporting plate 1 by thehinges 3 and l, and in such position that it may swing from a horizontalto a vertical position and be slightly shorter than the height of thedoor when in vertical position, so that the door may swing open orclosed.

The ironing board brace 5 is hinged to the underside of the ironingboard 2, about centrally thereof, by a pair of hinges 6 and 7 andextends backwardly and a downwardly and engages in a notch 8 formed inthe cleat 9, which is nailed across the lower end of the plate 1.

A sleeve board '10 is hinged to the upper end of the plate 1, by thehinges 11 and 12, just above the ironing board 2, and extends outwardlyabove said board and is' supported by a U shaped brace 13 with inwardlyextending pintles. Eyes 14 and 15 are screwed into the underside of thesleeve board and the pintles of the U shaped elongated openings 16, 17.18 and 19 for the.

reception of hooks 20, 21, 22 and 23. Said hooks are L screws insertedat'an angle into the door 21, as shown in Fig. :f, so that when provided7 the plate 1 is inserted the hooks will extend through the openings16,17, 18 and 19 and jam against the outside of said'plate to hold theplate and ironing board rigidly in place upon the door.

An eccentric block 25 is pivotally fastened by the screw 26 to the plate1, under the inner end of the ironing board, and in such position thatwhen the board is swung up, as in Fig. 2, said block may be turned to avertical position to abut against the end of the board to hold the samein folded position.

The sleeve board 10 folds above the plate 1, against the door 2l and theironing board 2 folds up against the sleeve board with the brace '5against-the back side thereof, so that the whole construction isverycompact and convenient. v

In the drawings I have-shown the device mounted upon a' door, which isthe preferred form, but it is to be understood that it may be mounted inany convenient place upon the Wall.

board proper hinged near the upper end of' the supporting plate, meansfor supporting said iron1ng board In relation to said supportlng platewhen in open position, and an eccentrlc block pivotally mounted upon thesupporting plate under the ironing board,

so that when the ironing board is out of use it may be swung to verticalposition and said eccentric block rotated to abut againstthe end of saidboard to hold the same in posi-' tion against said supporting plate.

EDWIN A. BLANCHARD.

Witnesses:

WM. E. Bisnor, P. DOUGLAS BIRD.

